By Jonathon Van Maren At the bottom of the staircase at the Prinsenhof, there are still two jagged holes where bullets knocked chunks out of the wall, the only damage to an otherwise smooth white surface. They are covered by a glass pane, and my wife and I squinted closely at it—it is on this…
By Jonathon Van Maren It has been popular, of late, for columnists and commentators to speculate on the extent to which President Donald J. Trump is dividing white evangelicals in America, with a special emphasis on the apparent divide between younger Christians and older Christians. It is certainly true, for example, to say that older…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you happen to be a Canadian taxpayer, your government is using your hard-earned money for all sorts of things. We fund 100,000 domestic abortions per year, for example. Thanks to Justin Trudeau, we’re also paying another $700 million annually for abortions in developing countries, potentially including countries where abortion is illegal. Canadians…
If social conservatives think they’re going to get a fair hearing from the overlords of the digital public square, they are sorely mistaken. Consider this, from the Washington Examiner: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg recently donated $1 million to Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political arm of Planned Parenthood. According to the Huffington Post, Sandberg’s donation…
By Jonathon Van Maren As the Democratic primary season hits full swing, the candidates have settled on the schizophrenic strategy of shouting their support for abortion into every microphone that they come across while also attempting to dodge questions on late-term abortion and the raft of extreme legislation passed by their state-level colleagues since the…
One key frustration for abortion activists right across North America has been the fact that even where abortion is legal, very few medical professionals are actually willing to perform abortions. This is true in Canada, where so-called “barriers” to abortion are often nothing more than a shortage of doctors who wish to kill rather than…
By Jonathon Van Maren In today’s world of failing media operations, Canada’s state broadcaster the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation only survives for one reason: It is funded by the taxpayers, who have their wages garnished to pay for a largely left-wing network that champions every progressive cause and has been promoting the Sexual Revolution with great…
By Jonathon Van Maren “Abortions will not let you forget,” Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote sadly in her poem the mother, “You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with little or with no hair…I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my…
By Jonathon Van Maren Despite nonstop promotion from corporations, the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, and progressive politicians, a new set of polls seems to indicate that younger Americans are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the growing extremism of the LGBTQ movement. Additionally, as the movement shifts into the post-gay “marriage” era and begins to radicalize…